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Escambia County Teachers, Support Personnel Get 4 Percent Pay Raise
October 15, 2014
Teachers in Escambia County are getting a pay raise.
The Escambia County School District, the Escambia Education Association and the Union of Escambia Education Support Personnel announced that they have reached a collective bargaining agreement that will give a four-percent pay raise to all teachers and educational support personnel.
The pay increase will be retroactive to July 1, 2014.
In addition, the school district and the EEA also reached agreement on a Performance Pay Formula to comply with Florida law.
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5 Responses to “Escambia County Teachers, Support Personnel Get 4 Percent Pay Raise”
Well personally Im just thrilled to death! 4% is 4% and I will take every penny I can get. I just hit ten years as a bus driver and Im up to a whooping 12.37 an hour. Add another bit to that? Ok, thanks. If I want more then I will go back to school, complete my degree and get a better paying job. I knew what the pay was when I accepted the position.
In this day of looking at data from all directions, look at this:
The supplement for a teacher to go from a Bachelor’s degree to a Master’s
degree in 1984 was $2,500. TODAY, 31 years later it is $2,500.
That is half a life time. Is that the best six leaders can do for this county? What a fine example for prospective teacher’s.
When government is one of the best paying employers and provides some of the best job security and benefits in a society-SOMETHING IS WRONG!
Fuss because of the years when there isn’t enough money to give raises.
Get a raise and fuss because it isn’t enough.
Comparisons between public sector (school district / government) jobs and private sector (businesses / enterprise) jobs will always show the public sector earns less.
However, in the public sector jobs there is a large measure of job security and benefits which include retirement plans that are paid by the school district and state contributions. Not a bad deal.
Private sector jobs have nearly all stopped providing retirement plans for their employees. The job force is individually responsible for their long term retirement planning.
As always people who are unhappy with their jobs or work situations can find relief by exiting that position and seeking employment elsewhere.
As an ESP employee, I think this is a terrible raise. The ESP’s are paid at a lower wage than the rest of the people in the same jobs. Bus Drivers start at $10.42?/hr – garbage truck drivers start at $14/hr. Our longest employed mechanic make less than a mechanic just starting out at other companies.
Teachers have always been more of a priority than ESP’s. But ESP’s are the backbone of the school system. Without us-there would not be students to teach, food for them to eat, clean classrooms, secretarial, maintenance of grounds and buildings.
Let’s do right!